They quickly discover the harshness of this life: their isolated camp is hot and uncomfortable, they wear scratchy tunics, sleep in tents, and hunt and forage for meagre food supplies. Together, they will spend a week living as close as possible to Iron Age life. They join an academic, Professor Slade, and his three students, Molly, Pete and Dan. Silvie's father, Bill – a bus-driver by day and part-time history hobbyist – has coerced Silvie and her mother into accompanying him on an immersive archaeology experiment in rural Northumberland. Silvie, the novel's 17-year-old narrator, propels the story with an almost stream-of-consciousness urgency, her speech peppered with northern patois.
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